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January 2017

January 17, 2017

Towards a New Argument Against Pornography

Call me morally optimistic, but I think that most people have a basic intuition that...

July 2016

July 15, 2016

How to Know That You Are Beautiful

You cannot see your face. You can look into a mirror, but a mirror can...

May 2015

May 25, 2015

Death, Split Selves, and Demons: The Dopest Album on Your Otherwise Dopeless iPod

When I first played twenty one pilots' new album, Blurryface, I was not looking to be...

March 2015

March 24, 2015

The Art of Dying

There is a difference between Christian music and music flushed with a theological project. The...

March 15, 2015

Bettering Your Boring Christian Playlist: Jenny & Tyler

Artists have been coming to Steubenville, OH, getting their hands dirty with The Harmonium Project, playing...

March 14, 2014

The Mode in Which We Go To Mass

The mode in which a message is delivered has the power to negate the content...

December 2013

December 29, 2013

Millennial Misery

These are odd days. In 5 minutes I may come to know your appearance, birthdate,...

December 18, 2013

What We’re Doing In Steubenville

Over the summer, my friend Joseph Antoniello and I on a porch in Steubenville, Ohio...

August 2013

August 24, 2013

Fortunate Fall

In case you don't know by now, Audrey Assad wrote a new album entitled Fortunate...

August 13, 2013

Man as Art

There is a reason to draw a strong analogy between the human person and the...

August 12, 2013

The Egoism of God

Our modern difficulty with the idea that we are created by God may well spring,...

August 11, 2013

How Not to Despair or A Kierkegaardian Analysis of Typhoon

All I really want to do with my life is convince you that the indie-rock...

August 10, 2013

Typhoon and the Goodness Revolution

My will to live in some semblance of communion with my culture has been snatched...

April 2013

April 01, 2013

Ritual, Evidence of Eternity

The eternal can be well worn, but never worn out. It is always experienced as...

February 2013

February 23, 2013

5 Reasons to Kill Christian Music

If your music is bad, and you're praying that God will do something great with...

January 2013

January 17, 2013

Is Man No More Than An Ape?

Man is a self-glorified ape. He occupies no special place in the Cosmos -- a...

January 07, 2013

Useful Lust

To love is to experience the infinite on earth. This is apparent as the taste...

January 04, 2013

The Metaphysical Mystery of the Buddleja americana

I would like to vindicate an undeniably stupid experience, and make a largely ridiculous claim....

December 2012

December 12, 2012

Beauty: So Much More Than We Think

One of the more vapid mistakes of our culture is its constant equating of beauty...

September 2012

September 20, 2012

Humans Are Useless

Beauty begets love. A flutter and twitch of female lashes can crush a man's heart...

September 13, 2012

In Defense of Covering Catholic Churches With All Sorts of Gold

"While Jesus was in Bethany, a woman came to him with an alabaster jar of...

August 2012

August 17, 2012

Dappled Things, My Dear Readers

Readers, allow me to speak to the Catholics reading this blog, for I do not...

August 01, 2012

A Sword for Theists

It's a shame that the word "priceless" gets hurled around by jewelry stores and credit card companies...

May 2012

May 27, 2012

On Wanting To Eat Your Baby

It is a tangible reality of human experience, that in the presence of a Beauty...

April 2012

April 01, 2012

Music That Doesn’t Suck!

When I heard Audrey Assad was covering Pink Floyd's masterpiece Wish You Were Here, I...

March 2012

March 30, 2012

Christopher Hitchens and Groaning During Sex

Mr. Hitchens -- may he rest in peace -- was far too involved with Christianity...

February 2012

February 21, 2012

On Catholic Design

Remember the Total Consecration App I was promoting a while ago? The gentleman who designed...

February 20, 2012

Why Modern Man Wouldn’t Like Heaven (If He Had the Balls to Get There)

"The joys of heaven are for most of us, in our present condition, an acquired taste." I...

February 15, 2012

On Being Made For Infinity

There is an ache within atheism an awful lot like unrequited love. There is a nameless and...

February 14, 2012

It’s the Best Day Ever!

Why? Yes, it's St. Valentine's and all that, but guys! Audrey Assad's new album Heart...